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3MP`o= PEI LI P.,4RL 1 , XT. HOUSE OF COMMON,F. wain:MD A.Ti.Arait 27, Llra EA3IOAIt3J presented a Petitina . - rom the Lebtors confiecei Gaol, praying reLef.-- Ore7.•Teci to lie on Teole. • Celene.l Staxenv, after,a short prefatory address, e 2 reseated a - Bill for the better regulating the nettle meneof the Poor, and it was read a first time. The fecoa;d reading wasdixed for th 10:h of May next. Alderman Cogri, after - shortly expatiating ppon the great increese and. enertnity of the offence of Child , steeling. which, to the disgrace.ef this Coun try, was praetised no where else on the habitable globe, brought in a Bill, whiCh was' read a first time, for the more eifedually punishing persons guilty of stealiug or enticing away children .horn their parents, friends, or otherwise. It was ordered 'for a second reading on Monday next, and in the Allan titne-to be printed. • On the motion} of the Loe.n ADVOCATE, a Com mittee ,was appointed to inquire into the stock of the Cowl of Sessions of Scotland ; and a Committee waeako ordered for toenpi row oldie whole House, to take hie) consideration the state 't the Courts of Juet•ce in that part of the United Kingdom. 'Pursuant to hi% notice, Mr. Tnemetee rose and e,tifeet,e,he attention of the HOuse to the nffliding cee*Stanee which so fatally and so frequently oc curs oil our coast, when .ship Wrecks happen, that the bodies of the unfortunate sufferers are too often permitted to be •exposi:d for clays upon the beach, before the re.speiaive - parish officers will attempt to inter them. • Such itihnspitahle, not t o say crue l conduct, would disgraee the most barbarous nation ; ' but in a country which is in itself maritime, and whose inhabitants have relatives so•rcutuerously em ployed in a . seafaring life, it is most abominable.— On a late event of this description, when so many , of the crew of the Anson Frigate were lost', their bodies lay on the open beach, negloned end •ex posed, till absolute necrztssity, arilsitig from palpable causes, at last compelled the ewers of the adjacent distria to bary them. To prevent a repetition of such scenes, and to provide hereafter for the inter mint of sat:leas bynhe lot of shipwreck, or other wise, should be cast dead Upon out shores; berhid devised a remedy, which was to compel each coun ty to bestow Christian:burial upon the deceased, and to defray the same out of the county treasury. He then:Thoyed for leave to bring in the Bill ; and leave wee given. Mr aesSxissofr presented an Account of the Ef fraite Volunteers of. Great Britain and Ire Lind— . Ordered to ee erinted. • . On the "Aloe of Mr. PAlttln.t, a iletlrn was ordered to Le laid before the Hanle ,of the Number of Civil Bills tried before the Bartz , . of the ,Exche- Jncr in Ireland, for one year, ending the I s t o f apuar7 Mr. Rose presented Accounts of Fees takeh by the Clerks of the Privy Council and Others, for granting Trade Licence's.-..Ordered to be print e d. Mr. Foetal presented several Public Accounts, and moved'for several others. Colonel Wertot.E. inquired of his Majesty's Mie Disters e whether they intended to take any steps re speting the Report relative to the Medical Board, as, from the nature of that Report, and the flagrance of the abuses it pointed at, if they did not speedily take it into serious consideration, he should think it his duty to call the marked .attention of the House • to it in a very short time. The Ciiis NiCei.toa of the •Becuzatr e inmiediate ly answered, that certainly the 11-port Eilled for grwo -e ion, 'rind it was under cceisideration . bet it was of such a tic,ription Nat ft ; .tb take such steps Ek would be etreetual to punish and prevent the like hereafter. Ats soon as any meashre, of those at present in con. templation, should be matured, GoVernment would feel satisfadion in submitting it to the House. On the Motion of Colonel Sir tet ( EY, a Return was ordered of the Nurnberbf Men and Officers want ing to'fill up the Vacancie in the - Militia, Occasion ed by those who suited the sarou to volunteer their service in the Regiments of the Line. The Order of the Day being read for going, into Qnmtuittee on f tlw Sow Dras,vbaek Bill, • Mr. Foseett proposed to till up the blank respea ing- the continuation of the suspension, with the words, " the end of the Session." Sir Anne Newtown wished the blank to be filled up with the Words " - one month," instead' of " the end of the Session.'' • - FosTE,It replied, that as it would be proper that the Report of the Committee respecting the West rndia Planters should he before the House bef o re the subjea now itrquestion was finally deter. rOitliid upon, and as it was not certain when that' eis would be made, he bed proposed to continue the suspension tt) the cud or i ee Session ; but he lied o qhjoioo to e i onseet to the insert irin of the words " six weeks," it the lien. B.ecnet . wished it. en 3. NktvusEuftT eve these* . tneastires were . [lien 15.1. ; and that it Would not follow, that because the e stillery of sugar was cleemed necessary in I. 4 *.rig.; 1 4 1,d, e must also tie adepted in Ireland, which was ant be nod by the At of Union to 411 T /inch E p ee . sure of. essimilation ; but the people of that country had tinoog cause 91 eompleint on the head of dis filleries, especially fora- grole intringemeot of then principles of the Ad of. pnion. The, fad stood : thus : by an error in the wording of a clause in the ACI of Union, respe6ting tile finery of reciprocally hooprting from one country into the btlicr the pro doce of their respcetive di,tiileries, on paying duties equivalent tethei.nternal rele Oil en herethe wordGmt Britain (which includes Scetland),was inserted instead of the word England.. This was prodnaie of incon venience by DO tneansintended.. It "becairatenects eery, therefore, to explain this matter, by an A6t e which passed at the latter end of thelag Session, Without any opportunity of diseu.ssioe, whereby th e drawbacks to the Irish distiller upon sending his, goods into this, country were sualeett!ed, and the only boon which Ireland- dewed Irmo the Union, in return for the many arid important sacrifices she bad, made,' and which was reel)), copsidered as a been of impprtance to the Vali distilleriei, wa s d one array. He was sorry to be (trivet) to observe, that not only in this, but almost every ether testence, when the intereeta of Ir ! ?Ialld Cattle into eoinpetilon n that House, those of Ireland must always giv e O O way, Agso bf tni 4 , 1 ,4,-)cl preponderate, If this pratlice continued, it must teach the people of that country to , consiL:cr the useasuro of 'Union rather as a curse than an advantage. The CtlA9cELLott of the.Excittouga,expressecr'' both his concern and astonishMent at hearing the language which the lion. Baronet had used. - As far as his immediate knowledge of the!transatiiOns of that House had gone since the Union, ,bellrotested that he knew of no initance of partiality towards and injustice towards Irelancr,' which he complains of. On the contrary, it appeared to him, that-the British Legislature had studied to make the Union eminently-beneficial to Ireland in particular; and he could venture to say, notwithstanding. the assertion of the Hon. Baronet,, that no article of the Union has ever yet been violated by any legislative Mt. It might be that an article of it required ex planation; tint would it be said, that giv,ing expla nation to that, which in its original shape could not he understood, was violating that article of the Union ? Common sense cried out against this doe trine, and he trusted that the Hon. Baronet would himself see the error into which his zeal had led him. Mr. FosTrut said he could not hear the observa tions. which had fallen from the Right Honourable Baronet, without troubling the Committee with a ic'.v words. So far was the conduct of that House from justifying the Right Honourable Baronet in the language he had used, that upon all occasions where the intfrests of Great Britain and Ireland might be supposed in aoy degree td come in competition, he had always found the House inclined, not only to ata with justice, but with the most favourable con siderationtowards Ireland. When the measure of the Uninu was under consideration, he had taken quite as aaive a part against it as the Right Honour able Baronet could have done, and therefore he considered that his testimony upon this subject was, at least, entitled to as much attention as that of the Right Hon. Baronet. He always observed that every Member from all parts of the Kingdom of Great Britain manifested the like spirit, and the welfare of the sister Kingdom vas the general and universal, sentiment expressed and praaised. He was therefore exceedingly sorry to hear the Hon. Baronet use words which, from their import, were well . calcu lated to do incredible mischief, by exciting jealousies where none exist, and creating apprehensions,' where .eonfidence alone ought to prevail. But he denied that there prevailed such an instance as the Honour able Baronet had described, and he challenged him to shew it. 'He called upon him to shew one at of injustice towards Trelauti, which he had com plained of, and, to produce his proofs.' The Bill which he had adverted to was a boon to Ireland, The public wanted it,, the distillers wished it; and whatever was praiseworthy or blameable in it, he re cognited it as hi:; own : it was , he,tbat submitted it, and he, at the very inicione of that public, and of those distillers, presented ft, and haft triaeledliatia . a law. In fad, instead of being of the nature aicrilsbti to it by the Hon. Baronet, it was infinitely more fa. vourable to Ireland, than ititras to Great Britain, and that has been proyed in the experience of it. ' Mr. MACNAtIaILTON was of opinion that the lan guage used by the Hon. Baronet was extremely mischievous, and, if it went forth uncOntradided, was calculated to excite discontent all over Ireland. ire did not 'mean to impute any evil motives to him, but, without supposing that any such were euter,. tained, he could not but such would, be the eft fe of that lee cage. Since he had the honour of a seat in that Horse he could bear testimony_ to the constant`and uniform liberality which every mea sate met, intended for the good of Ireland, which was apparent in every traosatitiou respeeting that part of the Uujted Kingdom. • Mr. WILBERFORCE was also concerned to hear the Hon. Baronet express hithself as he had done, the more especially as theatccusation did not go -particu larly to implicate Pee Administration or another, but ' was a general charge against every,- Member, both of Scotland and England. He appealed.to the good sense and candour of every Gentleman present, espe cially thOse who , had 'been car and eye witnesses of -all diet transpired within these walls since the Union, Whether the charge had any foundation, and hecon jured the Hoy. Baronet to. reconsider the matter, and to tetratt so . severe a cet*tire and accusation. He did not, imagine that the Hon. Baronet ewer , tained the smallest desire that any evil should pro- . ceed from such assertions; but now, as he was ap prized of it, he trusted 40 would listen to the voice, ot; persuasion. Sir JOHN NZWPOIIT then road the ALA to which he alluded ; it was for suspending the bounty on ex partatien of Irish spirits, in certain cases, to Great Britain.—[On this occasion , there was a general cry of Hear ! from the Treasury Benches, indicative of its btiing the very dried to which Mr. Foster alluded, and which he brought JOHN,, atter making some comments upon it, denied that it Meant any good to Ireland ;, acid' added., that it passed at the eta i within the last fortnight of the cou:lusiou, when he, in common with tivM of the ,Irish Members, died returned home frotrt the fatigues of the year. Mr. VosTy.te then said, that was the identical Bill which he had patronized, and be repeated in strong and in unequivo,:al that it was a benefit to the Irish Distiller, and . a benefit to the Irish. re v e nues; and he hew reminded the.lion. Baronet, that it was very netlike -a measure of his, which went to Like ball .the bounty from the Irish Distiller, and which would, had he staid much longer in office, have deprived him of the other half. Mr. PAttNitt.T. undertook to vindicate his friend (Sirlohn Newport) front having any ill inte nt i ons in thus making Ithi/wn his sentiments on the Bill qu'stien ; sand, for his part, he could not bat think that the Aa just re-4d oy him, was in some degree a violation of the Union. Mr. 1). BitoWNE could not avoid observing, that otter all the instances wh!ch the llonoural,lo'Baro. net bad slated; of prejudice and partiality, and viola tion'of the Articles of Unioo, he at last confined himself to one, and that not one ih,poh4. tte trust ed that ht . would cautimily avoid committing .hint sA in the same . Ncay agaio, as .his words, without intendinc:ill, might be of the worst cOnsequences. ifo , ni appealed to the House, whether the At 9: which thtt Hon. Baronet had alluded to, ,and which was no mere ,than a mere explanatory law, could be considered as a violation of the Uni oti ?- Mr. LESLIE FOSTER, in convincing pad conclusive terms, .shexed to the House that the At ad ver ted to dld not blear the construdion put up it Si the Hon, Baropet. In fad, be proved that the Aa in question was a measure of absolute necessity, to res cue the Ltgislature from the charge of violating the At of Union. ,Ayer a few generalsobservations from Mr. WM. TAYLOR I in support of the m e asure, the CIIANCIII.- 1,011 of the EICHEQ . UER, Mr. ROSE, and Mr. MAR-. 4YATt, the Resolution was agreed to, and the Re port ordered to be received to-morrow. Mr. LONG gave notice of his intention of moving fur.leave to bring in a Bill to accelerate the audit ing the Accounts of the Pay-Office. Mr. WARD presented Accounts of Prize Causes decided in t,he Court of Admiralty; which were or. dered to be printed. Colonel Snmst, not seeing the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) in his place, trusted, that in a mea sure of such 'magnitude as his Bill for raising aIA3- cal Militia, he Would not press it on Friday, when it was not likely. there would be a full attendance of Members. The CtrANcal.t.oft of the EXCHEQUi3R 'conld not otherwise answer for his Noble Friend, than that be kneW of no reason for any delay ; but yet he had no,,dbubt that he would accommodate the House. Mr. WINDHAM agreed with the Hon. Geutleman. who spoke last, that it was of great local inter est, and required a full attendance of Gentlemen, which . most probably would not be th 6 case on Friday. T4e CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER repeated l'is former ohiervations. On the motion of Mr. FosTati, the House went into an Irish Committee of Supply. Mr. FOSTER moved, that there be granted to his Majesty a sum, not exceeding t o,oool.lrish curren cy, for inserting public Proclamations and Advertise ' meats in the. Dublin Gazette, and other Irish News papers, for one year, from the,rith January, 'doe,' to the sth January, 1809. Mr. Psitsmt.r., could not give his concurrence to the sum proposed by Mr. Foster, as it was matter of public notoriety that the sums annually granted un der this head were applied by the Irish Government itr obtaining the- favour of the Editors of the Irish Newspapers, and thereby depriving the people of Ireland of a very valuable "privilege, namely, the Liberty of the Press. The mode whereby this was etfe&J, he said, was, that Proclamations and pub lic Aclvertise.ments'were inserted in the Irish News paperx,.alt hough, he contended a .they might receive . every necessary publicity by being inserted in the Gazette alone. The Honourable Gentleman then read the substance of several Proclamations, dated in 1806, and which had been continued to be in serted till within the last two months, although it *as _evident that the circumstances which occa sioned them had long ago disappeared. He then moved, tjiat the words " and other Irish Newspa pers "be omitted. • Sir ARTHUR WeLeasE.Y said, that the public pro attUtions.and advertisements alluded to were tif-H serted noitkibt;vely at a cortoin "corn per anntinav _ ar ' ic t not. paid for individually, and that they were givaltr the Editors of every Irish Newspaper without atiy distinainn betwikt those ,who were partial to or ad verse to Administration. The Gazette, he said, was very little known in many parts of Ireland, con sequently the people had no opportunity of being informed of the proclamations Government might deem it necessary to render public, except through the medium of the Newspapers. Mr. WINDHAM said, it was very strange the Edi tors of Newspapers were so very fond of i nsert i ng Governthent advertisements so repeatedly, if they were not paid for individually, but at a certain, sum per annum, as the Hon. Secretary had just asserted. Mr. CROKER said, that he himself had frequently been surprised at observing several proclamations continuing to be inserted in the public newspapers leng after the circumstances which called tor them had ceased, and that he.had mentioned the subjeel to an Editor of his' acquaintance, and received for answer, that news in Ireland was not in any degree so plentiful anti regular as in England, for when the wind was westerly the English packets did not ar rive duly. and the Editors were then obliged to fill their papers wish advertisementa dr any thing else. they could obtain. • . . After some desultory , conversation between Sir JOHN NEWPORT, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER, Mr. Fosfca, and Mr. WINDHAM, the Reso lotion was agreed to.. 'Mr. FOSTER then moved, that the sum of 0"i1. Irish currency be voted, to defray the expence of working his Majesty s gold mines in the County of Wicklow for one year, from the sth of January, 1808, to the sth of January, 1808. Mr. PARNELL felt himself bound to oppose that Resolution, as it was well known that the bed of the riVer, wherein the bits of gold were originally' found, had been recently explored, and that no more was to be found. He understood the workmen were at present employed in excavating a neighbouring mountain, in order to come at the source *hence the bite of gold were supposed to hayc rolled. The experiment, he said, was too chimerical to expea any success. - _ _ Sir Aturnun WELLESLEY said that the people who lived in the vicinity 01 the Mine, were of opi nion that gold adman) , existed; and he was anxious, that as considerable efforts were already .Made, they shoUld not be discontinued until the fad should be with some probability ascertained.t Sir lon IgEwrou'r believed that no gold existed in the place mentioned, and he wished no further expence sbonid he incurred in what seemed a hope less pursuit. He cid not, however,. oppose the pre• sent grant, but hoped it would be the last. After a conversation between several Members, the Resolution was agreed to. The Committee then voted the tbl:owing further Resolutions, viz. The ruin of 25,,,001. Irish currency to defray the expences of Criminal Pro.ccutions andother Law Proceedings in Ire. Lind. The sum of I.ooi. Irish currency towards defraying the expoce of the Cork Institution. 1 : 11L: 51.1111 of 58341. Irish currency, towards defraying the expellee of repairing Dr. Steven's Hospital. I* he sum ot 40381: Irish currency, to defray the expenses of cretting certain Buildings connected Witti Trinity Hos. pital. Tile sum of soul. to repay Edward Kent a sum of money paid by him into the Irish _Exchequer in his own wrung. A sum not eXCeeding4434l. 1 risk currency, for paying the Sal hies ot.Lottcry Officers in Ireland. The SPEAKER having resumed the Chair, the Re port was ordered to be received to-morrow. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means for raising the Supplies granted to his gajesty, when Mr. HUSKISSON' moved, That 2,253,0001. bell g the excess of the grants of last year above the 31111"1 expenditure, be appropriated towards the exigencies of the present year;" which was agr2ed to. Mr. FILISE.USON, ben moved " That the Cloathing of the Miliiia for one year be defrayed from •the.prp.. ceeds of the land tax." The SPEAKER then resumed the Chair, and . Report was ordertd to be received to-morrow. Mt. LosxtrieroN moved, That there be laid hefore.thi House an Account of the Wheat, .Rye, Barley, Oats, and Flow imporled into the United Kingdom in rite di*rent Year's since rite Year 1795, and the Bounties paid on its int pottation-0 rdateli.—Adjourned, MAI L. • Le.rwant island. 1)c Gottenburgh, Dublin, z %Vaterford. PRICE OF STOCKS OATTIIS AT TWZLVS O'CLOCK• COOSOLS O'- . 661 TH1!: SUN. SO: Sil QL:l$ DICILIt& I'ALSUM AUDEAT L 0 ND 0 N, TiftIVDAY, .AFIIII. 1808. A report was this morniug current in the City, that an Insurreaion of a very serious nature had-taken' place in Russia—that the prricipal Nobility of the. Empire were at the head of it, and that the Emperor ALEXANDER had been dethroqed. This circumstance, it is said, is mentionei in several Letters which haviti been received from Holland. We have not the means, . at, present, of ascertaining what degree of credit is , due to this Report. There can be no doubt bat that the Russian Nobility in' general are highly dissatisfied with the , War which was commenced in opposition to the' Wishes and interests of Russia, and they must fee! considerable indignation at seeing.. the Councils of Russia not only influenced bat governed by a Frenchman, and that Frenchman Gen. CAULINCOURT ! the man who seized the Dulta.' D'VNGHIEN. • There is one circumstance which appears to giro some degree rf probability to this report, and that is, the Russian army in Finland had suddenly retreat•. , ed. The cause of this retreat was not known in Swedes], .but was supposed to have been want of provisions; it is,. however, possible 'that it may have been occasioned by the event wbich wo have merit ;.or Ws this morning received some PapN . !; from Sire' den, which confirm the account of the suttikg , unexpeaed retreat of the Russian Army in Muland. The Swedes had advanced upwards of fifty wiles intO Norway, without any material opposition, and there appears little reason to doubt that with Mitisa as sistance, the entire conquest of that Country, will be effefled. The appearance of the British Naval force in the Sound appeals tci have induced the French to abandon all though:s of invading Sweden from' Zealand. UTTERS from Gibraltar were yesterday re ceived, dated the sth inst. which mention that a det ach ' meat, consisting of an Officer atld 100 Men, had been sent from that place to take possession of 3 small Island on the Barbary,Coast, which bad beef' ceded to us by the EMPEROR of Moßocco. This Island, it Is added, will be of great use to us i n watching the Enemies Gun-boats in theßay, whic h have annoyed us so much. There was a rumour 3t Gibraltar, that in consequence of the Insurreelioa at Cadiz, the Magistrates had given permission to two English 'Ships to enter that Harbour, upon the principle that the restrictions had hitherto been imposed upon 'Commerce, ware • entirely the result of French influence, Ind were highly injurious to the interests of Spain. t nen " Lion this merely as a rumour thatwas in circulatioa, • without attaching-the slightest'credit to it. arrived tam Spates' 3:oet T fon h r E h g ailn h lgy m dh o eca r s e i: i ii n vnec te e lli t g r e an ne sp e ir h e a , d i which have' produce in ttiat Country. Some priv a te advice; from C Adit, opinion; the at e a setxotrt.itolerdt:yil ecaveunet; dated the .28ta ult. were yesterday received in town. They state that the same popular cominetious lava prevailed in that place as iu the other paris of SPat"' and that the same indignation against the l at° PRINCE of PEACE animates the people. 'rho Pulic ° in :Cadiz bad found it quite impossible to resist thes e popular tumults, which, however, were ail faVour of the New government. The diate objet of -these disturbances was top I ocur e ,. and to destroy every Picture, Bust, and Sta tue C the late Minister, whose condua was malice! V t. such pride, avarice, and luxury, that he was alto ° , universally odious. , Those who, from motives a. gratitude for services received from th at Mi 110 1 appeared disposed to resist the popular fee:ing iitur e ' bim, and who.bad attempted to pre serve his pt lie with slifficulty escaped from the , effect Of Publt.c resentment. But the chief gro und of the,:dio IfilitEosity towards the fallen Minister . d di e have been a general belief that he. h a d betray e . I de Country to France. It is still itnposib,le rp er . mine what influence the French have had if' jug these transactions, but It se ems very P.Colt"Onl